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BAGGAGE TRUCK.

' Patented Oct. 21, 1884.

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W. -L. ARMENTROUT. BAGGAGE TRUCK.

No. 306,993. Patented Oct. 21, 1884.

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\VILLIAM L. ARMENTROUT, OF FREEDOM, INDIANA, ASSIGNOR OF ONE- l-IALF TOJOHN A. ROBERTSON, OF SAME PLACE.

BAGGAGE-TRUCK.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 306,993, dated October21, 1884.

Application filed July 5, 1884. (No model.)

To (tZZ whom it may concern:

' vBe it known that I, WILLIAM L. ARMEN- '.l.ROUT,2t citizen of theUnited States, and a resident of Freedom, in the county of Owen andState of Indiana, have invented certain new and useful Improvements inTrunk and Baggage Elevators; and I do hereby declare that the followingis a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, which willenable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and usethe same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, which form apart of this specification, and in which- Figure 1 is a perspective viewof my improved baggage-elevator. Fig. 2 is a front view of the same.Fig. 3 is a rear view. Fig. 4 is a bottom view of the platform. Fig. 5is a perspective detail view (seen from below) of the catch for thetilting portion of the platform; and Fig. 6 is a similar view of thecatch for supporting the sliding frame and the platform, and the meansfor operating the same, showing portions of the vertical standardsbroken away.

Similar lettersof reference indicate corresponding parts in all thefigures.

My invention has relation to elevators for raising and transportingbaggage, especially adapted to be used at railwaystations,express-offices, warehouses, and similar places; and it consists in theimproved construction and combination of parts of the same, ashereinafter more fully described and claimed.

In the accompanying drawings, the letter A indicates a frame orplatform, mounted 011 casters B, and provided at one end with twoupright posts or standards, G O, the inner sides of which form groovedvertical ways D. A frame, E, slides in these ways, and has two beams or.bars, F, project-ing from their lower ends, between which bars atilting platform, G, is pivoted at its middle upon the middles of thebars, and which bars are supported by means of brace-rods H, secured attheir lower ends to the outer ends of the bars and at their upper endsto bails I upon the upper ends of the side pieces of the sliding frame.The outer sides of the side pieces of the sliding frame are providedwith cogged racks J, which are engaged by pinions K, secured upon atransverse shaft, L, journaled in transverse bearings M upon the outersides of the upright posts at their upper ends, and provided with acrank, N, or similar means for revolving it. The under side of thetilting platform is provided at its edges, near the inner end, with twodownwardly-projecting hooked or shouldered lips, P, or catches, and twolevers, 0 O, are pivoted upon the under sides of the bars supporting thetilting platform, and engage the shoulders of the said catches withtheir inwardly-bent'ends, while their other ends are bent outward and upward, as shown at Q, and bear against springs R, secured upon the sidesof the platform-supporting bars, and forcing the ends of said leversoutward. The inner sides of the upright posts, or the sides facing thetilting platform, are provided with two curved bails or flanges, S S,diverging at their lower ends, secured at the upper portion of theupright posts. The side pieces of the sliding frame have projectingflanges T fitting in the ways in the upright posts, and one of the sidepieces has a recess, U, near the lower end of the same, in which recessa doubled spring, V. is placed, which spring has the lower end of itsouter arm bent outward to form a catch, the doubled end of the springpointing upward, and the inner sides of one of the posts has a recess,XV, near its upper end, at the side of the way in it, which recess iscontinued through the upright as a perforation, X, and theoutwardly-bent end of the spring may catch and bear against the lowerside of this recess. A lever, Y, is pivoted between brackets Z upon theside of the upright post, and has a bolt, A, pivoted to its end, whichbolt passes through the perforation in the upper portion of thepost,andit will be seen that when the sliding frame is raised so as toallow the the outwardly-bent end of the spring at its lower end to catchinto the recess near the upper end of the upright post, the said springwill hold the sliding frame raised, and that by forcing the bolt bymeans of the lever to bear against the end of the spring theoutwardlybent end may be forced out of the recess, allowing the frame tobe lowered. A spring, B, is secured to a cross-piece, 0, between theinner portions of the arms supporting the tilting platform, and bearsagainst the under side of the upwardly-tilting portion of the same, and

a bail, D, projects upward from a cross-piece,

It), connecting the side pieces of the caster I mounted frame, and isadapted to bear against the under side of the downwardly-tilting portionof the platform, forcing it upward, so as to have the hooked lips orcatches near the inner end of the platform engage the inwardlybent endsof the levers upon the under sides of the platformsupporting beams; andit will be seen that when the sliding frame is raised by means of therack-bars and the shaft having the pinions the outer ends of theselovers will be forced inward by the flanges or oblique curved bails uponthe upright posts near their upper ends, releasing the hooked lips andallowing the platform to be tilted, which will cause the article placedupon the platform to slide off.

It will be seen that this apparatus mayhave a trunk or other piece ofbaggage or merchandise placed upon its platform, be rolled upon itscasters to any place desired, when the platform may be raised andantomaticall y tripped, allowing the said trunk or other piece ofbaggage or merchandise to slide off the platlbrm.

Having thus described myinvention, I claim and desire to secure byLetters Patent of the United States 1. The combination of a platformmounted upon casters, having two upright posts at one end provided with.ways upon their facing sides, aframe sliding in the said ways, providedupon one side of its side pieces with vertical rack-bars, and having twoparallel bars projecting from its lower end parallel with the platform,a tilting platform pivoted between the said bars, means for retainingand tripping the said platform, substantially as described, a shaftjournaled transversely upon the upper ends of the upright posts, andhaving pinions engaging the rack-bars upon the sliding frame, and acrank for turning it, and means, substantially as described, forretaining the said sliding frame when raised, as

and for the purpose shown and set forth.

2. The combination of the platform. or frame mounted on casters, andhaving two upright posts at one end formed with ways in their facingsides, a frame sliding in the said ways, having a recess near the lowerend of one of its side pieces in the side facing the innerside of one ofthe uprights, and having two horizontal srnpporting bars or beamsprojecting from its lower end parallel with the frame or platform andwith each other, rack-bars se cured upon the outer sides of the sidepieces of the sliding frame, a transverse shaft journaled near the upperends of the upright posts, and provided with pinions meshing with therack-bars and with a crank, a tilting platform pivoted between thehorizontal supportingbeams of the sliding frame, hooked lips projectingfrom the inner portion of the side edges of the tilting platform, leverspivoted upon the under side of the supporting-beams, and havinginwardly-bent inner ends engaging the lips and up and outwardly bentouter ends having springs forcing them out, oblique curved bails orflanges secured near theupper ends of the uprights, adapted to engagethe outer and upwardl y bent ends of the levers, a spring secured withits doubled end pointing upward in the recess in the side piece of thesliding frame, and having an outwardly-hent end, and a lever pivotedupon one of the uprights near its upper end, and having a bolt pivotedto one end passing through a perforation and recess in the up per end ofthe upright, as and for the purpose shown and set forth.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own I have hereuntoaffixed my signature in presence of two witnesses.

\V'ILLTA'M L. ARMQIGNTROUT.

\Vitnesscs:

CLEMEN'L V. Mel; a um. 11. K. "flmjomav.

